Example sentences of "wait for the [noun] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was n't the Russians , it was the British who wanted to interfere ; so I said , I am going away to wait for the day when once again an Austrian can decide when an Austrian may conduct music in his own country . |
| 2 | So that we can wait for the moment when she sees you well enough to be sure whether you are Liam or not . |
| 3 | ‘ Because you ca n't wait for the time when you 'll be a married woman ? ’ |
| 4 | Nor can Colm Henry wait for the day when the whole ‘ chemistry ’ part of photography is done away with . |
| 5 | We can continue debating their demise , while we wait for the day when European taxpayers rather than farmers finally call the day on the common agricultural policy . |
| 6 | Agents were pondering whether they should n't ‘ hang on to thee rights , and wait for the time when they 're equipped to sell them , ’ as conference chairman Tony Feldman put it later . |
| 7 | I was always waiting for the day when I would be beaten up , but it never came . |
| 8 | Her family and acquaintance would have been greatly astonished to learn that Camille considered herself prematurely grown-up , and she herself was waiting for the day when she could tame her anger into cold bitterness and frame it into phrases as cutting as tempered steel . |
| 9 | Barbara Adams , a US-born resident of Katmandu , said : " I am waiting for the day when owning a Tibetan carpet incurs the same disapproval as wearing a leopard skin coat . " |
| 10 | When she reached the plateau she remained standing , watching for Joss Barnet , waiting for the moment when she would see him riding towards her . |
| 11 | Not all teachers are closet radicals , though , waiting for the moment when the unbolting of the examination doors will allow them to open up their pedagogical style . |
| 12 | When she began to unbutton his shirt he stood , paralysed , staring at the slack flesh round her stomach , he shivered and she took it for excitement ; he had dreamed about this , waiting for the moment when he would instinctively know what to do , would take control , but instead she was rubbing against him with a cool professionalism that unnerved him . |
| 13 | Sheikh , who was batting , stood crouched over his bat , patiently waiting for the moment when Mafouz would decide to let go of the ball . |
| 14 | Waiting for the time when profiles run . |
| 15 | As his wife , Jeanette applies ointment to loosen the glue , Adrian waits for the moment when he 'll be able to see again . |
| 16 | They waited for the moment when I might put myself beyond their pale . |
| 17 | We waited for the moment when we would hear those words : ‘ It 's a … ‘ |